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Learning Python Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Learning Python Web Penetration Testing Automate web penetration testing activities using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533972
Length 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Martorella Christian Martorella
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Analysing the results

In this section, we will improve the BruteForcer we created in the previous section in order to facilitate an analysis of the results. We're going to see how we can improve the results, then we'll add the improvements to our code, and finally test the code without testing the web app.

In the previous section, we created a basic BruteForcer, but we saw that the results were a little basic and that, when we have a lot of them, it isn't easy to identify the interesting findings. So, we can add colors depending on the status code. A good start would be to print in green all the results that have a status code greater or equal to 200 and lower than 300; in red, the results with a status code greater or equal to 400 and lower than 500; and finally, in blue, the results with a status code greater or equal to 300 and lower than 400. This will help...

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